Before becoming a captain whose power was bought by Yama-jii, she was the greatest unprecedented villain* in Soul Society.

Actually 大悪人 = daiakunin = great villain. But since 空前絶後 (= kuukenzetsugo = unprecedented, unparalleled) comes before it, I think translating it as "greatest unprecedented" isn't distorting the meaning too much. It could also be translated as "a great villian without precendence".

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Kubo's announcement will be his new work will be called Tide; not as strong as bleach but does its trolling in a more colorful fashion! - arcane_chaos

Spoiler

So, either Zennosuke's Zanpakuto hates him enough to let a Human pick it up, according to you, or Keigo is a secret Messiah who is loved by all Zanpakuto and can use all Zanpakuto. - saiyan

Great Chad will come from the sky. Diablo everything and make everybody feel high.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

Actually 大悪人 = daiakunin = great villain. But since 空前絶後 (= kuukenzetsugo = unprecedented, unparalleled) comes before it, I think translating it as "greatest unprecedented" isn't distorting the meaning too much. It could also be translated as "a great villian without precendence".

Shunsui: 山じいに力を買われ隊長となる前は ---> "Before becoming a captain and having her power valued by Yama-jii..."
Shunsui: 尸魂界史上空前絶後の大悪人 ---> "...she was a great villain never before seen* in Soul Society's history."

PN: 空前絶後 ("kuuzenzetsugo") is a very, very specific phrase; it means "[something] tremendously uncommon/rare," or a phenomenon so astounding/marvelous that it's more than likely "the first and last" of its kind. It's actually a "double compound" as 空前 ("kuuzen") means "unprecedented/record-breaking" while 絶後 ("zetsugo") roughly means "never to be seen again." As for 大悪人 ("dai akunin"), it's basically a "great villain" (literal reading) or a "grand wicked person," so your translation also works fairly well.

買われ ("kaware") in the first line means "to value/appreciate" (perhaps interestingly, it can also mean "to be bought/purchased").

"So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again" -Corrax Entry 7:17

Looks to me like Kubo might possibly have been going for a play on words in which both Dark Nemesis and Plasma's translations would be intended (and, given the inevitable degradation between languages that any translation suffers, probably something more, too).

I'm not so sure about ''zetsugo'' so unprecedented is good enough. Aizen has proved to be much better than her (not in terms of brutality, though)

Well we have nothing on her years before being the 1st Kenpachi and we know that whatever happened post that changed her significantly. She may or may not make Aizen look like a child when it comes to killing and torturing people. I think 8,000 styles have to count for something.

Referring to Chapters 49 and 50 about Ichigo's power after attacking the Menos.

In short, Lone_ant was right. I shouldn't have said broken shikai. He was at base the whole time. It's just his actual power/reiatsu was the equivalent of someone in shikai or bankai.

So first, I'm going to assume that the attack was a GT. With that said, that was the first time Ichigo tapped into his shinigami powers. And as Ishida said, Ichigo's power was at its lowest possible state. So using that power open and broke the spiggot and his power started to pour out. Uncontrollably. So yes, Rukia's zanpakutou that Ichigo was using did change shape. But that's because it was becoming distorted and his reiatsu was dispersing in an uncontrolled and rapid rate. So Ishida had to control the flow of reiatsu from Ichigo to keep Ichigo from destroying himself.

Mind you the entire time, the focus has been on the Zanpakutou as the focus of Ichigo's shinigami powers. So it wasn't merely Ichigo losing control of his riatsu (otherwise Ishida wouldn't have needed to focus on the sword or make contact with the sword) but the Zan going wild.

http://www.mangapand...chapter-49.html
An outside force forces Ichigo to go higher (put more riatsu in the sword) than his lowest possible state (which is as an Asauchi wielding Shinigami), where he performs a GT:

If you know electrons this would be similar to electron excitement. Consider an electron orbiting around a nucleus. Imagine the electron being thethred by a rope. The less energy there is on swinging the rope, the closer in the electron orbits the nucleus. However an outside force can add energy to the electron (say light), and because there is more energy, the rope swings faster and the electron is pushed to a much farther orbit

Once Ichigo reached that higher energy state / orbit, his Zan was obliged to release (after all the attack could only have been made in a Shikai state)

The problem is Ichigo is too weak to handle the power and would probably have been killed if the Zan released even partially. Hence, Ishida channeled the excess power until the 'spigot' wasn't overwhelmed anymore and Ichigo's riatsu became more settled. (This is also the reason why Shinigami don't just brute force their way to Shikai. Aside from the zan not agreeing, it is dangerous)

Consider all the other times riatsu was disturbed or uncontrolled.. you don't see the Zan suddenly wavering or changing form (indeed if you could do that just by disturbing your riatsu, you'd think people would do this deliberatley as a form of attack). Instead the only times we see Zans voluntarily changing form is during release or by active forging.

So we can only conclude that Ichigo's zan was releasing itself at that moment. This never happens again though, so perhaps Ichigo became more careful or more capable or Zangetsu became more cautious and limited even more power, or perhaps any combination of the above.

Two pages later, Ishida starts referring to Ichigo's spirit. I looked for the raw of that chapter, but couldn't find it.

Yeah, Ishida was trying to reduce Ichigo's energy state so his zan wouldn't release. You realize Shinigami have two spirits right? There's the Zanpakutou spirit and the Shinigami himself.. both of which govern the shinigami's riatsu (hence why Kenpachi was weakning himself by going against his Zan the first time he fought against Ichigo).

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

Hm. In that context, it's almost comparable to akasha or aether and, if so, we're into the subject of quintessence and the flow of such between Uryuu and Ichigo. I mention that solely because we're talking about two quincies (or more accurately two individuals with backgrounds that are unique by quincy standards) and I think that scene is very important to understanding both the bond between Ichigo and Uryuu and why their powers are so important for the final arc - I don't think Uryuu was entirely right to think it was solely caused by Ichigo's power because neither of them knew Ichigo was part quincy (or part hollow or anything but shinigami) and neither of them knew there was something odd about Uryuu's own power as well.

That was resonance, or the Bleach equivalent, between two youngsters who didn't understand what was happening and therefore could take no more advantage of it than a tool to save Ichigo's life and teach Uryuu an immediately valuable lesson without unlocking the secrets of both of their powers.

I'm glad you brought that up because in MP after Ichigo gets hit with a cero Uryuu notes that a resonance is occurring between Ichigo and the Menos (well going by the text, Ichigo's power and Menos's power). So a similar resonance could have also occurred between Uryuu and Ichigo when they "connected" but their powers didn't clash so abruptly.

I'm going to have to translate that page now

Kubo's announcement will be his new work will be called Tide; not as strong as bleach but does its trolling in a more colorful fashion! - arcane_chaos

Spoiler

So, either Zennosuke's Zanpakuto hates him enough to let a Human pick it up, according to you, or Keigo is a secret Messiah who is loved by all Zanpakuto and can use all Zanpakuto. - saiyan

Great Chad will come from the sky. Diablo everything and make everybody feel high.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

I'm glad you brought that up because in MP after Ichigo gets hit with a cero Uryuu notes that a resonance is occurring between Ichigo and the Menos (well going by the text, Ichigo's power and Menos's power). So a similar resonance could have also occurred between Uryuu and Ichigo when they "connected" but their powers didn't clash so abruptly.

Uryuu: "共鳴"によってか...? ---> "Because of the 'resonance'...?"
Uryuu: 砂の中に埋もれた砂鉄が強力なじしゅくで無理矢理 堀り起こされるように... ---> "Like iron sand* that was buried inside of sand being forcibly dug up by a strong magnet..."

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

So I'm reading this page and I come across this phrase: 特記戦力の１. Now one translation has it as "number one in strength". A better translation of that translation would be: "number one war potential". That may make sense if the kana was read left to right. But traditionally, especially in that format, kana is read from right to left. Also, "number one" from my experience would have been "ichiban (一番)". So my best translation of the RAW is "one of the war potentials". But I wanted to make sure I was reading/translating that right.

First of all, ignore the Manga Stream translation. The の character can mean several things, but when placed immediately after a noun, it's a modifier indicating "possession" and/or signalling apposition. In other words, there are two ways to read that phrase:

1. "Tokki senryoku, the 1."2. "The 1 of tokki senryoku."

Clearly, neither of the two makes sense when translated to English, so it becomes "number one" (as in literally, the numeral "one"), or "the first." I would personally translate it as "special war power number one" or "the first special war power." It's not "potential" in my opinion, as "senzaiteki" (潜在的) is the phrase for "potential" or "[something] latent." BadKarma calls it "special asset," which is also accurate as "senryoku" (戦力) is "military strength" or "war power." Also, "tokki" (特記) isn't just "special," it's more like "special account/chronicle."

I suppose Kubo didn't want to use "ichiban" (一番) as it can be an adverb meaning "most" or "-est."

The literal reading would be: "One of out of five of 'special war powers'..."

１つ - "hitotsu."５つ - "itsutsu."

Ahhhhh. sou ka.

I see. But now your post makes this not as simple. So it's either: "the first war potential" or "the number one war potential" or "war potential number one". All 3 mean something different. Either Zaraki is the first ever war potential. Or he's the ichiban no chikara of the war potentials. Or he's just simply No.1 on a list.

Also, Google Translate translates senryoku as war/fighting potential. So by default, that likelihood of that translation being wrong is high

It's true, Bach/Royd doesn't clarify what the labeling means, it's just a classification. I would say "the first war power" and "war power number one" are essentially the same thing, with "number one war power" suggesting Kenpachi's the strongest/most important of the bunch.

As it stands, not only did Bach/Royd not elaborate on what he meant, but the "war power" term itself is still undefined.

It's also worth observing that in one of the chapters - the first chapter the 'special war potential' was ever mentioned, I think - BadKarma did make a translator's note about their translating, observing it's difficult to identify the correct nuance when you don't really know what Kubo has in mind and that they might revisit their translation of the phrase one day when Kubo's finally revealed what a 'special war potential' really is.

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u

Prophetic Messages:
Kubo presents to us the 'Allegory of the Cave' through the magnificence of Aizen
Rejoice Godpachi brethren! The Apostle harkens the return of our god! And on the 3rd day he rose from the cavern, from the dead! Godpachi will come and solo their sins!
Righteousness has returned!
The benevolent Juhabach requests of those in the underrealm to lend their powers to the warriors in the overrealm for the sake of victory. Once victory is secured, the righteous Juhabach will restore the underrealm warriors with the power of their fallen enemies. Justice will prevail against the Usurpers!
It's not Bach, it's Floyd, the younger (but more talented) brother of Loyd and Royd. The true Y *Yolo* He lives life to the fullest... well not his own life but the ones he copies. -Scorpion2k4u